mcdebugger

Thanks everyone for replying.
I think the original question was answered so maybe it'd be better to close the topic.
For the people that was making advices I just want to point out that the life and world is not black and white. I really excited watching for professionals around the world, I have friends in many countries all over the world. Also just to point out I'm Ukrainian by father (my father was born in Ukraine and I used to live in Ukraine 1/4 of my childhood). I love Ukraine as much as I love Russia. I study reasons of this conflict for more than 10 years, I was watching it with my eyes more than you think, I saw how it escalated, saw how it did grow. My grandmother lives in Ukraine, 4 years ago my grandfather from Ukraine passed away, many relatives (cousins, uncles), friends live in Ukraine, some of my cousins are now at war from Ukrainian side and some of my friends are from Russian side.
I didn't want to tell you anything about it because I started topic for another reason... But these comments... Many of commenters don't understand what really is happening here! This is a tragedy for all our people regardless of which side of the border one is on. So before judging please... at least please check out the history.
Not to offend anyone. Just... Just please know that we are suffering from this conflict alltogether. Russia and Ukraine for many Russians and Ukrainians are united. Some of us even don't see the difference, just artificial borders made someday by the politics.
I wish everyone to live in peace and stay safe. I'm grateful for your responses.
With love

Hi!
Tell me please if there are any plans to restore ability to buy Affinity / Serif products in Russia.
I don't understand why ordinary people are affected by sanctions – this goes just beyond my logic and my mental abilities. I can imagine that Affinity products could be used by press / mass-media in Russia for publishing but at least ability for buying the products like Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer for hobbyists and professional photographers, designers could be restored.
Also as far as I can see in European and US media the initial informational pressure dropped down, many people in Europe and US now understand better true reasons of the conflict and can make new logical conclusions and decisions themselves.
So. Maybe it's time to have a chance to try again?
Best regards

Hi! I'm Maksim from Ivanovo, Russia.
I'm musician, photo hobbyist, video/filmmaking hobbyist. I also work in IT (networking administration, a little bit of scripting and programming/development mostly for web). Also I like to work with audio (recording, mixing, sound design, podcasting, mastering my own tracks, etc).
I use Affinity Photo to do some little retouching of photos that I made and for making artworks for my music releases. Also I love to do some other graphics stuff in AP for my personal "household" needs.
Happy to be part of the Affinity community and family.
I wish all to have pleasure working with Serif / Affinity products and being creative in general.

Hi! I'm Maksim from Ivanovo, Russia.
I'm musician, photo hobbyist, video/filmmaking hobbyist. I also work in IT (networking administration, a little bit of scripting and programming/development mostly for web). Also I like to work with audio (recording, mixing, sound design, podcasting, mastering my own tracks, etc).
I use Affinity Photo to do some little retouching of photos that I made and for making artworks for my music releases. Also I love to do some other graphics stuff in AP for my personal "household" needs.
Happy to be part of the Affinity community and family.
I wish all to have pleasure working with Serif / Affinity products and being creative in general.

Thanks everyone for replying.
I think the original question was answered so maybe it'd be better to close the topic.
For the people that was making advices I just want to point out that the life and world is not black and white. I really excited watching for professionals around the world, I have friends in many countries all over the world. Also just to point out I'm Ukrainian by father (my father was born in Ukraine and I used to live in Ukraine 1/4 of my childhood). I love Ukraine as much as I love Russia. I study reasons of this conflict for more than 10 years, I was watching it with my eyes more than you think, I saw how it escalated, saw how it did grow. My grandmother lives in Ukraine, 4 years ago my grandfather from Ukraine passed away, many relatives (cousins, uncles), friends live in Ukraine, some of my cousins are now at war from Ukrainian side and some of my friends are from Russian side.
I didn't want to tell you anything about it because I started topic for another reason... But these comments... Many of commenters don't understand what really is happening here! This is a tragedy for all our people regardless of which side of the border one is on. So before judging please... at least please check out the history.
Not to offend anyone. Just... Just please know that we are suffering from this conflict alltogether. Russia and Ukraine for many Russians and Ukrainians are united. Some of us even don't see the difference, just artificial borders made someday by the politics.
I wish everyone to live in peace and stay safe. I'm grateful for your responses.
With love

This thread is likely to be replied to in the future by people who don't necessarily read all of it, so to avoid unnecessary problems moderating it, I will lock this thread.

Hi! I'm Maksim from Ivanovo, Russia.
I'm musician, photo hobbyist, video/filmmaking hobbyist. I also work in IT (networking administration, a little bit of scripting and programming/development mostly for web). Also I like to work with audio (recording, mixing, sound design, podcasting, mastering my own tracks, etc).
I use Affinity Photo to do some little retouching of photos that I made and for making artworks for my music releases. Also I love to do some other graphics stuff in AP for my personal "household" needs.
Happy to be part of the Affinity community and family.
I wish all to have pleasure working with Serif / Affinity products and being creative in general.

Sorry, we are focussing our efforts on a major release (new features and fixes) and consequently have not done any minor patches for a long time, as you say. But no not dead.

I have hidden the 2 recent posts about the current political situation 

The problem is that I can't open app's page in Mac App Store even by direct link. It says that app isn't avaliable at my region. Not to mention trying to find it in App Store's search 😔 So I doubt that I can install it from Mac App Store.
UPD: I found it in purchases section. I think it could be installed from that place. Thank you for the tip.

Even though it cannot be bought from new in Russia, you can redownload Affinity Photo from the app store because you purchased it, so no need to backup Affinity in applications folder.
Please can you make a new post in questions forum about what personal files to backup specifically.

And
This is inappropriate. Serif customer come here to talk about Affinity software. There is no obligation to talk about anything else and indeed talk of politics is not allowed under the guidelines. Stop telling others how they're meant to react to Serif's decision 
 

I don't support any war.

It turns out that there are no Russian-speaking people outside of Russia, like in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russian-speakers in France.. Germany (GDR), Kazahstan, Moldova, Armenia.. who have been living for a long time and they speak in Russian. I understand that perhaps there are some cultural complexes.

By your actions you confirm the words of Russian propaganda that Russian-speaking people are oppressed all over the world.


Russian language in the world, just look at the numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_distribution_of_Russian_speakers

Probably. But they have the right to it. As company they have their own vision. I understand that.
But the rules of the forum... are the rules. They are designed to help people to have comfortable communication and I respect that too.
Maybe it was wrong to start such not easy topic but at least I have official answer from Serif so I have more information to take in account in my future decisions.

Thanks everyone for replying.
I think the original question was answered so maybe it'd be better to close the topic.
For the people that was making advices I just want to point out that the life and world is not black and white. I really excited watching for professionals around the world, I have friends in many countries all over the world. Also just to point out I'm Ukrainian by father (my father was born in Ukraine and I used to live in Ukraine 1/4 of my childhood). I love Ukraine as much as I love Russia. I study reasons of this conflict for more than 10 years, I was watching it with my eyes more than you think, I saw how it escalated, saw how it did grow. My grandmother lives in Ukraine, 4 years ago my grandfather from Ukraine passed away, many relatives (cousins, uncles), friends live in Ukraine, some of my cousins are now at war from Ukrainian side and some of my friends are from Russian side.
I didn't want to tell you anything about it because I started topic for another reason... But these comments... Many of commenters don't understand what really is happening here! This is a tragedy for all our people regardless of which side of the border one is on. So before judging please... at least please check out the history.
Not to offend anyone. Just... Just please know that we are suffering from this conflict alltogether. Russia and Ukraine for many Russians and Ukrainians are united. Some of us even don't see the difference, just artificial borders made someday by the politics.
I wish everyone to live in peace and stay safe. I'm grateful for your responses.
With love

Thanks everyone for replying.
I think the original question was answered so maybe it'd be better to close the topic.
For the people that was making advices I just want to point out that the life and world is not black and white. I really excited watching for professionals around the world, I have friends in many countries all over the world. Also just to point out I'm Ukrainian by father (my father was born in Ukraine and I used to live in Ukraine 1/4 of my childhood). I love Ukraine as much as I love Russia. I study reasons of this conflict for more than 10 years, I was watching it with my eyes more than you think, I saw how it escalated, saw how it did grow. My grandmother lives in Ukraine, 4 years ago my grandfather from Ukraine passed away, many relatives (cousins, uncles), friends live in Ukraine, some of my cousins are now at war from Ukrainian side and some of my friends are from Russian side.
I didn't want to tell you anything about it because I started topic for another reason... But these comments... Many of commenters don't understand what really is happening here! This is a tragedy for all our people regardless of which side of the border one is on. So before judging please... at least please check out the history.
Not to offend anyone. Just... Just please know that we are suffering from this conflict alltogether. Russia and Ukraine for many Russians and Ukrainians are united. Some of us even don't see the difference, just artificial borders made someday by the politics.
I wish everyone to live in peace and stay safe. I'm grateful for your responses.
With love

Thanks everyone for replying.
I think the original question was answered so maybe it'd be better to close the topic.
For the people that was making advices I just want to point out that the life and world is not black and white. I really excited watching for professionals around the world, I have friends in many countries all over the world. Also just to point out I'm Ukrainian by father (my father was born in Ukraine and I used to live in Ukraine 1/4 of my childhood). I love Ukraine as much as I love Russia. I study reasons of this conflict for more than 10 years, I was watching it with my eyes more than you think, I saw how it escalated, saw how it did grow. My grandmother lives in Ukraine, 4 years ago my grandfather from Ukraine passed away, many relatives (cousins, uncles), friends live in Ukraine, some of my cousins are now at war from Ukrainian side and some of my friends are from Russian side.
I didn't want to tell you anything about it because I started topic for another reason... But these comments... Many of commenters don't understand what really is happening here! This is a tragedy for all our people regardless of which side of the border one is on. So before judging please... at least please check out the history.
Not to offend anyone. Just... Just please know that we are suffering from this conflict alltogether. Russia and Ukraine for many Russians and Ukrainians are united. Some of us even don't see the difference, just artificial borders made someday by the politics.
I wish everyone to live in peace and stay safe. I'm grateful for your responses.
With love

@mcdebugger
Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums
Sorry but the decision to stop taking payments in Roubles/selling in Russia has the consequence of being generally unavailable to ordinary Russians.
 
Not sure that's true MikeW. I think we've chosen to withdraw sales. Obviously we all hope the fighting stops.
Serif have no plans to restore sales in Russia. 
Serif have no plans to support a Russian language localisation of version 2 of the Affinity suite, as we will not be targeting that market.

As long as sanctions are in place, there legally isn't anything that Serif can do but adhere to them.
Hopefully the war will end sooner than later and the sanctions lifted so sales can be resumed to the Russian people. 

This is always very terrible. Any war on the planet is awful, but unfortunatelly they happen very often in many countries. As the mainkind we probably haven't grown yet to live in peace and friendship with each other. At least politics, corporations, governments.
I don't think we should discuss such a wide and deep topic on this platform, there are many for these tasks. My question here is just about relationships between one creative company and creative people that are part of its community. Thus I'd like to return to the original question.

Hi!
Tell me please if there are any plans to restore ability to buy Affinity / Serif products in Russia.
I don't understand why ordinary people are affected by sanctions – this goes just beyond my logic and my mental abilities. I can imagine that Affinity products could be used by press / mass-media in Russia for publishing but at least ability for buying the products like Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer for hobbyists and professional photographers, designers could be restored.
Also as far as I can see in European and US media the initial informational pressure dropped down, many people in Europe and US now understand better true reasons of the conflict and can make new logical conclusions and decisions themselves.
So. Maybe it's time to have a chance to try again?
Best regards

This is always very terrible. Any war on the planet is awful, but unfortunatelly they happen very often in many countries. As the mainkind we probably haven't grown yet to live in peace and friendship with each other. At least politics, corporations, governments.
I don't think we should discuss such a wide and deep topic on this platform, there are many for these tasks. My question here is just about relationships between one creative company and creative people that are part of its community. Thus I'd like to return to the original question.

Hi!
Tell me please if there are any plans to restore ability to buy Affinity / Serif products in Russia.
I don't understand why ordinary people are affected by sanctions – this goes just beyond my logic and my mental abilities. I can imagine that Affinity products could be used by press / mass-media in Russia for publishing but at least ability for buying the products like Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer for hobbyists and professional photographers, designers could be restored.
Also as far as I can see in European and US media the initial informational pressure dropped down, many people in Europe and US now understand better true reasons of the conflict and can make new logical conclusions and decisions themselves.
So. Maybe it's time to have a chance to try again?
Best regards